Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

A sick person is a prisoner.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.